Windows is easier to install because the user didn’t install it.
It’s always funny when someone goes “It’s so hard to install”, like bro, you just press “next, next next, enter your name, finish”. Can’t get easier than that.
Assuming the graphics drivers baked into the installer work in the first go - ask me how my weekend went.
Oh God Linux and drivers man
This is why I swapped my RTX 4070 with my brother for his 7700 XT. He offered me some money on top of it. I told him happy birthday because it matters more to me that it just fucking works instead of requiring a blood sacrifice every six weeks to not boot into a void.
Or, as Linus put it, fuck you NVIDIA.
And Windows 10 Pro has more steps than Linux Mint. The argument has been moot for a while, but some folk need a little encouragement to unlearn what’s been parroted for decades.
Yeah but there is a partition manager 😱
Is it easier to install though?
I must say, im impressed by windows 11 haveing an update that fucked with the gui shutdown and then next up one that just straight up made it unable to boot
I have a windows 11 machine and i was “mmh, yeah microsoft sucks with update but it has been a while since i updated it…should i?” but now i fear to click that damn button
“How do I get Linux.exe?”
Yeah, already installed vs. may require some tweaks to get all of your hardware working, is a big one, especially with laptops since there’s so much proprietary junk in many of them.
People who use the word “fanboy” care way more than the other side, it’s like android saying it to Apple users
Use your trash while the rest of us enjoy a stable product
Stable… haha
Stable? Are you really talking about Windows where every update is a gamble (and increasingly so)?
I use macOS, but yes windows is more stable than desktop Linux overall
I use Linux every day but it’s not useable on the desktop and nobody who knows anything about computers thinks otherwise
Is this rage bait?
Yes
Ragebait used to be believable
If you want to take it as that, and are unwilling to take advice from people with actual experience
I’m a sysadmin. I professionally support about 30 Windows users plus a couple hundred classroom computers, and personally my family’s PCs. And you are full of shit.
Starting December of last year, every time Microsoft released a cumulative update, I’d get an influx of OS-related issues, including:
- Microsoft Store breaking installed applications
- Broken HDMI, audio, and wireless device drivers, one of which was only fixed after a wipe and reinstall
- Bitlocker failures that couldn’t be decrypted with the key from the user’s Microsoft account
- Two occurences of a wiped EFI partition
- One occurence of a completely broken installation
- One occurence of a corrupted motherboard firmware
You can call Linux an unstable experience (though referring to “Linux” as a blanket term is nebulous and reductive to the point of irrelevance), but in the real world with real users, Windows is absolutely not a stable operating system, and far more difficult to diagnose and fix.
(edit) I almost forgot! We also had to push back an upgrade of the wifi infrastructure by a year because WPA3-Enterprise support on Windows was either broken or nonexistent on about a quarter of the computers. It was a fucking farce.
Yeah 40 years working on computers and the last stable windows OS was XP.
I have actual experience and you are completely full of shit.
You have no experience. I need a computer to get paid. No way am I using windows. Linux on the desktop is rock solid and the most productive environment available.
I manage microsoft crap for a living and tolerate the occasional Mac (what a mess its become), and I would never rely on a Microsoft product.
If you had any experience at all being on a call or in person with microsofts server, desktop, or azure teams you would know damn well that even they know its mess with contradicting advice and rules and fixes for their shit.
Ah, thank you for confirming it.
“not usable on the desktop” me: who’s been using linux completely without issue after setup for daily work and complex shit for over a year
I work in IT, and i think otherwise.
Someone woke up and chose violence this morning.
It’s probably the #1 reason I’m not a fan of trying to convince Microsoft users to come over to Linux… I’d rather we NOT have to dumb down what is essentially an almost perfect OS for a bunch of fuckwits who can’t figure it out…
Been saying this for years. Any time the masses get involved with something good, it goes to absolute shit. Not everything has to be for everyone.
Well my friend, we’re in the minority it seems. Everyone else suffers from choice supported bias. (The need to convince others to make the same choice they did to validate their choice in their mind.)
Ah yes, the single OS known as “Linux”
I’m no irl proselytizer but if someone wants to switch their desktop experience (to Linux, Mac, etc.) I won’t actively discourage them lolol
